In his seminal book, the Wealth of Nations, written in 1776, Enlightenment philosopher Adam Smith presented the example of the complex supply chain required to produce a simple straight pin. Smith asserted that one man working alone could barely produce one little pin a day, whereas a number of men dividing the labor between them could produce up to 48,000 pins a day.
The Pin Factory and Social Justice
The Pin Factory and Social Justice
The Pin Factory and Social Justice
In his seminal book, the Wealth of Nations, written in 1776, Enlightenment philosopher Adam Smith presented the example of the complex supply chain required to produce a simple straight pin. Smith asserted that one man working alone could barely produce one little pin a day, whereas a number of men dividing the labor between them could produce up to 48,000 pins a day.